Peasantry to precarity: How Chinese workers are shifting the job economy
Sarah Swider joins KPFA's Against the Grain to share what’s happening to millions of Chinese peasants who migrate to urban centers to do precarious work in China’s construction industry. She also considers what the growing concentration of Chinese migrant workers in cities might mean for working-class politics and solidarity.
In this interview, Dr. Swider describes how an "astonishing number of people in China are moving from peasantry to what's called precarity. They're moving from the countryside into cities to take precarious jobs in the urban informal economy."